
Date of issue: 11.02.2004
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
New Cut Road |
Coleman Bonner was a fiddle-playing fool |
A backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules |
Coleman Bonner’s got a wore out bow |
Been playing two days at the new cut road |
Coleman’s little sister said, «You better act right, Coleman |
'Cause Daddy’s gone to Louisville and he’ll be back tonight |
He’s gonna get another wagon and a good pair of mules |
We’re gonna all move to Texas, we just waiting on you» |
Now Coleman’s daddy, he pulled up in the yard |
Said «Pack up your lives, kids, it’s gettin' too hard |
Kentucky’s alright but there’s too many people |
Just the other day, I thought I saw a church steeple» |
Coleman said, «Daddy don’t you worry 'bout me |
Gonna stay here in Kentucky 'til the day I d |
Gonna drink that sour mash, gonna race that mare |
Gonna find that woman with fox-red hair» |
Now y’all been movin' west since the day you got married |
Well I’m gettin' off the wagon, Daddy, I’m too old to be carried |
Gonna stay here in Kentucky where the bluegrass grows |
Gonna play it all night down the new cut road |
Now Coleman’s daddy said, «What's it all coming to? |
Young people these days, they’re just as stubborn as mules |
You can’t make him go, he’s too old for that |
It’s that damned old fiddle and that bowler hat |
Now Coleman’s mama said, «Aw, let the boy stay |
He’s raised up solid, he can find his own way |
But as for me, honey, I’m with you |
I always thought Kentucky was just passing through |
Now Coleman’s little sister started in to crying |
And his daddy shook his head for the very last time |
Coleman’s mama said, «Somebody's gotta do it |
Wouldn’t be no Kentucky unless you didn’t stick to it, Coleman» |
Coleman Bonner stood on the porch of that cabin |
And watched 'em all go to Texas in a covered wagon |
And he pulled out his fiddle and resined up his bow |
And played a little tune called the «New Cut Road» |
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